10 Totally Gross And Gruesome WWE Visuals
Things Get Ugly...
Wrestling is a dangerous game.
Few make it to WWE from the thousands that try and try and try, pushing their bodies beyond realistic expectations in front of tiny audiences motivated most by the dream of doing it for a sustainable living in front of the biggest crowds in the business. Those that aren't scared off by the literally inhuman grind of it all earn their scars en route. Those that actually survive and even thrive in the supposed promised land are scarred even deeper.
In the rare case a performer gets in and out of WWE physically unscathed, a complete and total mental breakdown usually awaits. If the work itself wasn't hard enough on bodies and minds, the travel removes performers from anything resembling the real world - day-to-day life a distant memory or occasional reality in between making towns and hitting gyms.
Visuals such as the ones in this list should occur more than they do - it's a miracle (and a credit to the skill of the talent) that accidental injuries don't crop up on a nightly basis. Not least when when the company fly so close to the sun in the quest to create them...
10. Cesaro Likes This Post
Cesaro crashing chompers-first into the wide LED steel post mid way through a No Mercy 2017 doubles clash with Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins saw him emerge from the bump sporting a gap even wider than the one Amy Weber described during a 2004 'Diss The Diva' segment, but the true horror of the situation didn't reveal itself until after the actual match. It was the ultimate act of kayfabe preservation - Cesaro's sell of the ordinarily daft slingshot reinserted a danger missing from it for decades.
Most ringsiders were probably eyeballing the floor for fragments of the 'Swiss Superman's teeth, unaware that a full complement of his front gnashers were hiding up in his gums. They hadn't been knocked out, but knocked in - shoved so hard that they made the unplanned journey back from whence they came.
Despite unimaginable pain, Cesaro finished the match and was mostly unscathed from the occurrence. Missing the following evening's Monday Night Raw whilst medics repaired him (however the f*ck something like that gets resolved), he was back in action almost immediately after, rightfully wearing the ludicrous impairment as a hard-as-nails badge of honour.